Improvement in wagon-box and wagon-rack lifters



me offra e IZAAK VAN KERSEN," or KALAMAzoo, MIoHteaN' Letters Patent No. 111,021, datati Januafy 17, 1871'.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BOX AND WAGON-RACK LlFTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, IZAAK VAN Kansen, of Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented certain Improvements in Wagon-box, W'ood-rack, and Hay-rack Lifters, of which the following is a. specification The nature of this invention relates to improvements in apparatus for removing wagon-boxes,

placing them again, whereby it is designed' to save heavy lifting required to remove them by hand, and also to economize room for storing them.

It consists in providing within the building used for theY purpose, near the top, a frame with two clamps and two pulleys, and a pawl with' double oord, an axle or windlass with double holes for double ropes at each end, with cross-beams b elow, and a pulley with pawl bits, over which a rope works, wherebythe said windhiss is operated to raise the box or rack from the wagom'where it may be suspended till required for use again by fastening the ropev Asons to hold it. t

On reference to the drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view. Figure 2 is a level or horizontalvview of my invention. 1

Figure 3 is a section` of' the windlass and pulley L in the line Z l, fig. 2. 4

A (t represent the fra-nie of the building;

B B are two cross-beams, fastenedto the buildin g' frame; and Y,

C C represent the frame ei' my invention fastened uponthe cross-beams B B. I v

By D I) are two pulleys, whereover iun the ropes E E, with a cross-bea1n, F, below.

In this cross-beam is a hole at one end, wherein a rope is fastened, and to the other end are two notches, wherein the'other rope E e is fastened with a loop.

Upon the 4frame C C: are fastened the crotehes G G, wherein the windlass II is looked in with the wooden pins l and 2. Y In this windlassare four'holes, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and'4,

fig. 3. The holes 2 'and 3 are fory fastening thev ropes E e, iig. l, and the holes l and 4 are for fastening the ropes I I with a cross-beam, J, below fastened in the same way as timeless-beam F. wood-racks, and' hay-racks from wagons, and for Yre- .At one end, from the windlass H, fig. `3, is, by K, an excavation, to Akeep the windlass to itsplace, and to the other end is the pulley L, with pawl-bits to hold them.

The pulley is fastened with the wedge m, and by N is the groove for the rope O, `whieh is fastened in the hole j), and -run round the pulley and through the straightening-hole It, seen in l and 2.

The pawlI, witha double eord,`U, holds the p'ulley in the pawl-bits from going back 'while raising a boxV or rack from the wagon. i

Whenthe box er1-aok is to be'removed, the wagon standing under; the frame O C, the cross-beams Fand -J being under thebox or rack, pull down the rope O,v4

whereby `the box or rack is raisedito `an elevated position out of the way,ancl fasten the rope O to the cross-'beam J by the pin S.

When it is to be applied tosthe wagon again, loose the pawl I with the rope O and the cord U, and let down slowly the box or rack tothe wagon. I claim as my inventionlhe frame O C, provided with pulleys D D, clamps GG, and pawl F, in combination with wincllass H, drops E E, and cross-beams F -and J, all combined, arranged, and constructed as and for the purposes set forthr` IZAAK VAN' KERSEN. lVitnesses:

, AMos DALLEN,

RoLLIu Woon. 

